Beak-bashing Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII AJAJKK LMLMNN JOJOPP QR| But yesterday I banked on fistic fame | A |
| Figgerin' I'd be a champion of the Ring | B |
| Today I've half a mind to quit the Game | A |
| For all them rosy dreams have taken wing | B |
| Since last night a secondary bout | C |
| I let a goddam nigger knock me out | C |
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| It must have been that T bone steak I ate | D |
| They might have doped it them smart gambling guys | E |
| For round my heart I felt a heavy weight | D |
| A stab of pain that should have put me wise | E |
| But oh the cheering of the fans was sweet | F |
| And never once I reckoned on defeat | F |
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| I had the nigger licked twice he went down | G |
| And there was just another round to go | H |
| I played with him I made him look a clown | G |
| Yet he was game and traded blow for blow | H |
| And then that piston pain the dark of doom | I |
| Like meat they lugged me to my dressing room | I |
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| So that's the pay off to my bid for fame | A |
| But yesterday my head was in the sky | J |
| And now I slink and sag in sorry shame | A |
| And hate to look my backers in the eye | J |
| They think I threw the fight I sorto' feel | K |
| The ringworms rate me for a lousy heel | K |
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| Oh sure I could go on but gee it's rough | L |
| To be a pork and beaner at the best | M |
| To beg for bouts yet getting not enough | L |
| To keep a decent feed inside my vest | M |
| To go on canvas kissing till I come | N |
| To cadge for drinks just like a Bowery bum | N |
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| Hell no I'll slug my guts out till I die | J |
| I'll be no bouncer in a cheap saloon | O |
| I'll give them swatatorium scribes the lie | J |
| I'll make a come back aye and pretty soon | O |
| I'll show them tinhorn sports I'll train and train | P |
| I'll hear them cheer oh Christ the pain the PAIN | P |
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| Stable Boss | Q |
| Poor punk you're sunk you'll never scrap again | R |
Robert Service
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